A true Hearing “Hear-O” at only 18 years of age, Elisaul Then Lugo is already a remarkable young man. He is a loving son and brother, an extremely hard worker, a high school honor roll student, and without his cochlear implant, he is deaf. When Elisaul was born, he was completely deaf in his right...
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“Can Your Baby Hear You?” asked the pamphlet tucked into my hospital discharge papers. “Of course he can,” I thought as I tossed the pamphlet into my bag and left the room to join my husband and newborn son. Like many first-time parents, I had worried about a number of things during my pregnancy- Will...
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I have been fortunate to have worked in this field long enough to have seen amazing changes. When I started more than 50 years ago, children where not identified until their parents observed that they were not developing speech and language. Usually at about 18 months. They were fit with hearing aids which provided limited...
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With today’s technology there is no reason why virtually every child with hearing loss should not be able to hear. It is the responsibility of the audiologist to be sure that the child is hearing. It is not okay to assume that a child with hearing loss is hearing well enough just because he has...
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